rglee129

Sorry for the second resub, gang. First time through I changed it to cranberry and used an orange-ish red for the fire for some POP, and I also gave the bot a bit more battle damage to even up the fit a bit. Then for the second resub I wanted to tone down the texturing a tad and tweak the rip in the wing. Anyway, I really like the way this one turned out! Thanks for your votes and comments, and thanks to Mrwednesday and Lkackman for feedback on V.1.

midgerock

The design is sweetness and hilarious. My only crit is the color choices. Not too found of the blue for the night in contrast with the green goblins and the orange fire. just my onion. I hope it does well this week.

mrwednesday

Wow! My first though was you didn't have enough colors to make a shirt swap, but the transition to cranberry looks really good. If forced, I think I'd still have to choose the red. I think it exemplifies the fire much better, but the contrast is definitely a bit better in this version.

Do you plan to leave both versions up? It doesn't appear as if either are tearing up the voting unfortunately, but I'd hate to see one lose out because of the other. Both are great and I can only assume if not a win and HM and if not that an EC (though the last batch were complete rubbish) and if not that I can think of several places where it'd have a good chance of printing.

Anyway, I have a feeling I'll be wearing this shirt at some point in the future. Sooner rather than later......I hope.

mayday226

When I first click to look at this, I thought "aww, poor fire beast..."
Then I noticed the possessions around the piles of ashes...and counted the piles...and couldn't stop laughing!
This is both amazing and adorable. Great work!

TobiasAmaranth

theinfinityloop wrote:Attack or no attack, I have to agree that this isn't fire. I think it's fine to stretch the spirit of fire to a certain extent, but this is more about the spirit of kitsune or bioluminescence.

Not really. (And no, I don't see this as an attack myself.) The derby theme is fire, period. And fire is a concept used in both sides of this design. It is not slap-you-in-the-face-with-a-giant-flame fire, it is a subtle double-reference to a word. They never said 'your shirt must involve a large amount of burning, fire, or a dragon', they said 'the theme is fire', simple as that.

Stretching the theme and using subtleties are not the same thing. I might be quick to jump on that goldfish shirt, but I vaguely recall some mythology or other such history behind goldfish or koi that involves the element of fire, so even though I can't name the reference, I won't question the shirt's relevance. And I don't see why you feel the need to question this one's when it even has fire on it, as much as some of the other shirts on here I've seen. So just sit back, relax, and enjoy the derby. Or use the tattle button and move on.

CrescentDebris

Real late entry. I've been sick. Drakxxx sent me some lines. I said "What if it was a Marshmallow monster instead." He sent me a revision. Then I had things to do and then tried a different method... which didn't go as planned so it took much longer. Anyway, enjoy. Mmmmmmm

JadenKale

I'm with Loopy, in regard to conflicting styles within the piece. I think that, while cute, it is more 'charming' than kawaii, as someone decided to use. Because of that, I am in approval of it.

Your characters surrounding the dragon have their own 'uniique' details that make them identifiable to you and only you. I would have kept the flatter, more cohesive style throughout and made the dragon more like them. Just because you slap on halftones doesn't mean you'll get a print. I honestly would have loved to have seen a version of this with a dragon that matches the rest of the design. THAT piece, would likely be the one I would support.

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